This frame I used the teachers video and added digital paper to add a pattern.

This class was fun and had its challenges but I did learn a lot of new tips and tricks. It was great to see everyone’s work and style and appreciate the critique given. May you all have a wonderful Christmas and hope to see you around campus in the following semester!

Hey guys hope you all had a great Thanksgiving, its been crazy busy over here getting settled in.

For my t-shirt design I wanted to do an apple like I did but was going to say something different and when I told my daughter what I was going to say her response was “that’s not very nice!” so I changed it last-minute. Leave it to my 12 yr. daughter to keep me on track o_O.

So here is my design, very simple, not very ah inspiring. I used the pen tool and created a vector apple, no other fx were used except for the font I added a stroke.

Posting a bit late, we are in the process of moving and that has been taking priority these past few days. Moving was fun when it started but after a while packing becomes overwhelming and I couldn’t fathom doing this too often, but I guess you become efficient at it over time.

For this project we needed to create a web design that could be put on a blog or a personal website.. So this is my take on a web page, I did a home page and a portfolio page. All the pictures shown are some I have taken. I used digital paper for the background from this site. I goggled for a paperclip .png to use and then added a mask to erase some of it. And the lined paper I found on this site.

Things have been crazy in these parts- lots to do in school and a lot going on in life. I suppose I didn’t learn my lesson from last week- when will I ever learn?

At first I did not understand what we were to do so it took awhile to think of a project. Then my husband came up with the idea I used. My photography teacher also helped me better fine tune the idea to what the final is.

I think there could have been additional elements I could have added like some splashes but I just didn’t know how to make them blend in to make them look normal, something to definitely something to work on.

I am not much of a hand drawer so my Fine art piece shows my abilities. I also did not give myself enough time to work on this weeks assignment… lesson learned!

For my custom brush I used a self-portrait image from the first project, then created 4 colored boxes and applied the brush in an opposing color to get the effect seen. I was trying to mimic something I have seen before but I could not find anything close to what I was doing on the web for reference. My husband said this version was interesting but creepy. Does anyone have a link that I can reference to create something similar, it would be neat to make one of the kids for their rooms.

*UPDATE* OK, so after I posted this I went searching and searching and… well, I found a link to what I was looking for if anyone is interested. Click Pop Art

Here is the final:

Image used:

Before image

For the fine art, I used only brushes and tweaked the final image a bit. I was debating downloading CS5 to use the mixer brushes because that looked like it was a bit easier.

So this vector thing took some serious time. Once I got the hang of things it made it easier to edit but still slow as molasses, definitely something to keep practicing.

My “client” hired me to create postage stamps for the new breed of the blue butterfly. At least that is what I attempted to do. It is very difficult to create the repeating stamp shape without using the brush tool… ugh!

Here is the before:

And after:

I lightened the background on this one but it still looks a little pink. Oh well… I blame the pink border around the picture. 😀

For this weeks project we needed to restore an old photo. The one I used was an image of my husbands maternal grandmother. This is what I have completed for now, I know I need to really get in there and clean up around the edges to blend it in better.

I used these restoration tools: spot healing, healing, patch and cloning tools. I made some adjustment layers to adjust the color balance, levels and black and white. I also used the lasso to select an area (like the boy’s eye) and duplicated it to the other side. Boy, was that a challenge!

So this week was extremely difficult for me, I don’t believe that typography is my thing. I do although really enjoy seeing other designers tutorials and creations.

I will post all the projects I did, but the first one is my “typography art piece” for this class.

I will also add the url links I used for the projects and add the pictures I used from the web.

Here we go:

#1. I got my template from a picture I took and wanted to recreate the fruit loops in words but that would have taken forever, so I changed that part. Instead of a bowl of cereal I did a plate of peas.

I also wanted to try to create my photo with words like this link, but I did not know how.

Here is my pic

#2. I used this tutorial for this project, changed a few things and added a brush as a border.

#3. I created this project for my boys bedroom, I did not use a tutorial. The font is “transformers” from dafont.com.

Layers panel

This is what it looked like before I placed the paper over all the layers.

#4. Created the stamp, thought it was neat and learned something new. I used this tutorial, but used my own photo for the “grunge”.

#5.This one is supposed to kind of look like a stitch pillow. I did not save this project when I first created it and then Photoshop crashed on me. I lost everything I did, took me about 2 hours trying to figure out how to follow the tutorial. Then when I went to recreate this it only took me 10 min. Boy, did I learn my lesson!!! ALWAYS SAVE YOUR WORK!!! I used this tutorial to complete this project. And I used this picture for the ribbon on this page.